Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 24, 2000, 6:57 PM CST for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2000, 6:57 PM CST (00:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2000, 7:45 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Meade County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 7:00 PM CST | Hail 1.25 | Meade, KS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 72 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2390 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 250059 SVRDDC KSC119-250145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 657 PM CST THU FEB 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 745 PM CST * AT 657 PM CST...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH OF MEADE STATE PARK...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED MEADE STATE PARK BY 710 PM CST MEADE BY 715 PM MISSLER BY 720 PM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT WHILE LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA. $$ LAT...LON 3705 10057 3703 10016 3743 10015 3746 10057 REITER NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 8:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 49 min |
| Feb 24, 8:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 43 min |
| Feb 24, 9:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 39 min |
| Feb 24, 9:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 45 min |
| Feb 24, 9:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 50 min |
| Feb 24, 9:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Kiowa, Pratt | 65 min |
| Feb 24, 9:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 65 min |
| Feb 24, 11:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 50 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.